My Baby's Got a Smile on Her Face

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"My Baby's Got a Smile on Her Face"
Craig Wayne Boyd - My Baby's Got a Smile on Her Face (Official Single Cover).png
Single by Craig Wayne Boyd
ReleasedDecember 15, 2014 (2014-12-15)
Genre Country
Length3:16
Label Dot
Songwriter(s)
  • Mark Marchetti
  • Stephanie Jones
Producer(s) Blake Shelton [1]

"My Baby's Got a Smile on Her Face" is a song by American country music singer Craig Wayne Boyd. It was Boyd's coronation single following his victory on the seventh season of the singing competition The Voice .

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History

Show judge Blake Shelton gave Boyd the song, and said that he originally planned to record it himself. [2] The song was written by Mark Marchetti, a son-in-law of Loretta Lynn, and Stephanie Jones. [3]

Music video

Boyd debuted the video in December 2014. [4]

Chart performance

The song debuted in the top 40 of the Hot 100 as well as at number 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated for January 3, 2015. In doing so, it became only the second song to debut at number 1 in that chart's history, the first being "More Than a Memory" by Garth Brooks in 2007. [5] The following week it fell completely off both charts, making it the shortest charting number one in the history of the Billboard country charts.

Chart (2015)Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [6] 45
US Billboard Hot 100 [7] 34
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [8] 1

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